The Scribe: “Today I wish to discuss with you something your Master, Jesus, was so adamant about during his life on earth and towards all of His apostles. That special something the Master was unwavering about in his heart and in his mind — often also in His speech and in His directions to whoever wanted to hear — was that we should be companiable and work together.

“Often enough He sent a message ahead to a friend or likely host with two of His apostles, rather than with just the one. You could well conclude that if one muddled up the message, the other might correct him or her. I see that you do . . . but in those days of Roman repression it was often safer to travel in twos. As well, and this is profitable to bear in mind — in the afterlife, that you are all presently being made ready for on this evolutionary planet — very few work alone.

“Here on this earth in artistry and industry, commerce, sports and invention, the producers are hailed as especial achievers, the self-starters, because what they did, they did alone, individually without the help of another. Whereas in the afterlife, all millions and millions of centuries of it, you will be at a task of recommendation or of your own choosing with ever-more colleagues of ever-more new species of Children of God.

“Not one person will save your world, my well-meaning student, but many ‘apostles’ grouped around a divine idea, a divine mind, a divine personality, taking away and spreading the lofty ideas from on High will achieve that success in the end, as long as you all work together.

“I Am the Damascus Scribe, glad to be working with you all and being your Teacher for a time.”